Helping you to retire into the unknown.
Explore the journey from working life to retirement. Retirement is a new time for activity, engagement, and a stage of life that will become uniquely yours.
Costing less than a high street coffee, gain inspiring insights and practical tools to help you prepare with confidence.
Including:
- Explore the highs (and lows) of leaving working life behind
- Learn simple ideas to make your money last
- How to love retirement (and not be faced with boredom)
- Keeping body and mind active (to hopefully live longer)
Retirement tip:
Every day 10,000 of us leave working life. But, within five years 2,500 of us rejoin the workforce.
While some return out of financial necessity, many find themselves combating boredom in retirement. Going to back to work stops that.
Retirement doesn't just bring an abundance of free time; it also takes away the camaraderie of workplace interactions, the structure of daily routines, and, for many, a sense of purpose and identity. This guide begins by helping you navigate the initial transition, offering insights into this significant life change.
Retirement happiness can often drift into a void of nothingness. Doing nothing undermines your well-earned phase of life. So, to ensure a fulfilling and rewarding retirement, the first step is preparation. Not just for leaving work behind, but also for embracing a new way of living.
Far from being an ending, retirement marks the beginning of a fresh chapter; one that could span 20 years or more. This guide will help you explore ways to make these years some of the most enriching and enjoyable of your life. After all, retirement is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redefine how you live.
Having immersed myself in the subject of retirement for the last five years, I would venture to suggest that I'm now a seasoned expert. A bold claim because my career was rooted in the financial world. To make this claim, I have a passion for personal development that leans towards being an expert. What I can say with some degree of confidence, however, is that before retirement, I only had a narrow vision of how life would change. Or indeed, how my time would be spent. To answer my questions about retirement, the solution was to learn. Because throughout my career, I have always been resourceful and happy to self-educate. I grabbed everything. Read countless books and articles. And observed how my working world was changing. After retiring in December 2019, I had a head full of knowledge. Insightful knowledge that I believe, today, is ripe to help others to make the big leap into retirement. Finally free from work, I feel liberated and refreshed. I hope to inspire others with this book: A guide to successful retirement.
